[Samba] smbd crashes

Peter Trifonov
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:10:05 -0000

Hello everyone!

After upgrading from samba 3.4.9 to samba 3.6.1 on a FreeBSD 8.1 x86 system
smbd stopped working.
It starts successfully, but crashes as soon as someone tries to connect to a
share.
Log file contains a lot of entries like the following:

[2012/02/06 11:05:13,  1] lib/util_tdb.c:521(tdb_wrap_log)
  tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: spinlocks no longer supported
[2012/02/06 11:05:13,  0] lib/messages_local.c:112(messaging_tdb_init)
  ERROR: Failed to initialise messages database: Unknown error: 0
[2012/02/06 11:05:13,  0] lib/messages.c:245(messaging_reinit)
  messaging_tdb_init failed: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
[2012/02/06 11:05:13,  0] lib/util.c:961(reinit_after_fork)
  messaging_reinit() failed: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
[2012/02/06 11:05:13,  0] smbd/server.c:388(smbd_accept_connection)
  reinit_after_fork() failed
[2012/02/06 11:05:13,  0] lib/util.c:1480(smb_panic)
  PANIC (pid 50503): reinit_after_fork() failed
[2012/02/06 11:05:13,  0] lib/util.c:1584(log_stack_trace)
  BACKTRACE: 8 stack frames:
   #0 0x12ec7cd <smb_panic+93> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
   #1 0x15b164d <main+5437> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
   #2 0x12fc401 <run_events+385> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
   #3 0x12fc62e <event_add_to_select_args+526> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
   #4 0x12fcc45 <_tevent_loop_once+149> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
   #5 0x15b1247 <main+4407> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
   #6 0x107a12b <_start+203> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
   #7 0x107a075 <_start+21> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
[2012/02/06 11:05:13,  0] lib/fault.c:370(dump_core)
  dumping core in /var/log/samba34/cores/smbd

It seems that something is wrong with the messages.tdb file. I have tried
removing it, it was re-created  but nothing has changed.
Please let me know how can this be fixed?

Many thanks in advance.